I am currently updating the Henderson County GenWeb Site. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or materials that you would like to add to this site. If you have surnames that you would like to be added to this site, again feel free to contact me.
Barbara Beauregard
Henderson Cty GenWeb Coordinator
This article was posted from Digital NC.
Exciting news from Digital North Carolina! 42 newspapers that live in the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill and were never microfilmed. Here are links to 2 from Henderson county;
NC Probate Wills and Estates. That are located on familysearch.org website. This site will have will and probate images by county. You can search by each North Carolina county.
North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 • FamilySearch
Below are links to the Volume Title and Year
The following article appeared in the July 7, 1966 issue of the Henderson Times-News. Chief E.E. EDNEY reported the fire.
Source: Google News Archive
A partial list of slaves found in the estate files of their owners has been added under Records>Miscellaneous Slave names derived from estate files. Any additions to this list would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a cool photo of a gravestone I found in the backwoods of Bath County VA.
Does anyone know if there is a link between this man and the Henderson/ Buncombe County
Having struggled for sometime trying to get this into a readable format, I have placed clips from the newspaper on one page. To make them readable I had to clip portions from the newspaper and try to reconstruct. Hopefully I have them in the correct order
Highland Messenger 24 Nov 1843 Asheville NC
Highland Messenger 7 April 1843 Asheville, NC